Personality Profile Jimmy Mitchell Turned Life Around in 1944
The High Point veneer magnate Jimmy Mitchell recalls a turning point after he threw a whisky bottle through a window in 1944 and stopped drinking. He built Jim my Mitchell Inc. from 1944 onward, moved to a 701 Prospect Street plant in 1950, and became a major regional businessman and philanthropist involved in sports, education, and civic groups. About his life, Mitchell notes his focus shifted to clear thinking and opportunity, while maintaining community ties and broader ventures such as North American Fiberglass Corp.
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Benny Phillips
Jimmy Mitchell
High Point
Mitchell
Jimmy Mitchell Inc
Radford
Prospect Street
Emerywood Country Club
Herschella Knapp
Dallas
Texas
Mitchells
Sandra Edwards
Sedgefield
North American Fiberglass Corp
Michell
Yale Drops Numerical Grades Abolishes Report Cards
Spotlight on Education applauds Yale University for abolishing letter and number grades in favor of four designations. The piece argues grading distorts learning, calls for individual diagnosis, and urges colleges and schools to replace report cards with measures of genuine understanding and growth.
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New York
Yale University
Bennington College
Princeton
Columbia
William Kesen
Yale College
Banesh Hoffman
Lange
Teachers College
National Assn
McCarthy's Presidential Path Confounds Washington Politics
Washington in a look at Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota as he moves toward 1968 primaries. The piece traces his anti Johnson stance amid layered ties to Johnson Humphrey and the Kennedy circle, noting past roles and his rising lecture fees tied to the book The Limits of Power.
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Gene
Washington
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Johnson-Humphrey
Johnson
Humphrey
Minnesota
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Minneapolis
Orville Freeman
Democratic
Farmer Labor
Senate
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
House
Sam Rayburn
White House
High Point urged to act now on model cities plan
The High Point editorial argues the city must redouble efforts to redevelop its inner core without waiting for another chance at the model cities program. It notes overcrowding and crime in five neighborhoods, cites past urban renewal gains on the east side, and calls for leadership, private public cooperation, and sustained investment.
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High Point
Miss Thomasville crowned as crown slips and heights tale
Davidson dateline reports a crowded Thomasville pageant scene. Miss Linda Carole Hiatt a hospital x ray tech from South Carolina used quick thinking to help Miss Collis Hill during crown placement. A separate incident at the Piedmont Festival Parade involved a reveler losing a balloon and possibly alcohol, prompting a confrontation with a service-station owner.
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Thomasville
City Memorial Hospital
Linda Carole Hiatt
Hiatt
Collis Hill
Miss Hill
Miss Hiatt
Jaycees
No-Brake Mountain Road Warns Cherokee Tourists
A Grizzly Brake Lining Co release explains why Cherokee North Carolina sees drivers suffer brake fade on the eleven mile descent from the Great Smoky Mountains. Tourists from the Midwest misuse brakes as the road twists, overheating linings to glaze and lose friction. Drivers are advised to use low-low gear to keep speed controlled and let engines aid braking.
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Cherokee
Grizzly Mfg. Co
North Carolina
Mountain
United States
N. C
Great Smoky Mountains
Newman Arnead
Harold
Fuerst
Grizzly
Maremont Corporation
Middle West
O. K
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Optimist Club
Jaycee
Hi-Toms
Finch Field
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
North Carolina State College Student Aid Association
State College
Dennis Byrd
State
Carter Stadium
Bill Gentry
Jerry Parrish
Spotlight ON Education
Benjamin Fine
North American Newspaper Alliance
Yale
the Capital
By Leslie Carpenter
By Robert Marks
Central Business District
S. Main Street
East Central Area
East Central
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
Miss Thomasville
B. Braxton Younts
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